Configuring iForgot

Step 1: Pick an Email address on your home computer to be the "Receiver Account"

Select an account on your home computer to which you will send iForgot commands from your mobile device or remote computer. This account should normally only be checked from your home computer, and should not be the same as your mobile device.

Step 2: Add a New Mail Rule

In Mail, select "Preferences" and then "Rules". Create a new Mail Rule by clicking on the "Add Rule" button.

Make a new rule by clicking the "Add Rule" button.

Set the Rule name to iForgot...

enter the Receiver Account address you selected in Step 1...

and configure the rule to run the "iForgot.scpt" AppleScript (found in the iForgot/Scripts folder) whenever a message "To" your Receiver Account is received.

Step 3: Configure iForgot's Behavior

Open the iForgot application and enter the appropriate entries in every tab. There are several account definitions you'll need to understand before proceeding:

• Receiver Account: the email account on the computer where you install iForgot, which will receive iForgot commands and send responses.
• Primary Control Account: the primary email account you will normally use to send iForgot commands. This account can be your cell phone, BlackBerry, handheld (known as a portable electronic device, or PED) or webmail account.
• Alternate Control Account: the secondary email account that will normally receive iForgot responses. This will normally be your work email address or a second PED.

Configure each tab with your settings:

• About Your Computer
  
• Remote Device Info
  
• Security
  
• Custom Commands
  

Step 4: Test iForgot

Send the following command from your portable electronic device or from one of your authorized control accounts: ifgt it
Once your Mac receives and processes this email command, your Mac should launch iTunes and send a confirmation command to the originating account.